[i2c] [PATCH 2/3] i2c: Let bus drivers add SPD to their class

[Trent Piepho]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, David Brownell wrote:
> > Also, couldn't these platforms have other EEPROMs on these buses,
> > either EDID EEPROMs or proprietary ones, for which people might be
> > using the read-only eeprom driver at the moment? I don't want users to
> > experience a regression by applying this patch set. I'd rather have
> > them migrate their platform to the at24 driver once it is upstream and
> > remove the I2C_CLASS_SPD flag when they do.
>
> Unlikely.  At least in the cases I called out.
>
> Oh, and parport.  DRAM sticks, or LCD displays, over parport
> links would be strange.  ;)

An eeprom programmer or reader using a parport i2c interface doesn't seem
all that strange.  If I needed to make an i2c eeprom programmer, that's
probably what I'd do.